Sex with Mae West for the British

Sex with Mae West, Acoustic Music Centre at St. Bride's
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As a one-woman one-liner industry, Mae West is a gift to any actress-singer who wants to talk dirty. And a good few of the one-liners are here in a show that presents the Hollywood sex goddess as a raunchy rhythm-and-blues singer in an ill-starred relationship with a jump-jive saxophone-playing W C Fields.
Unfortunately, Corliss Randall doesn't, as it were, rise to the occasion.
Randall's idea of going West consists of teetering around, pawing her audience and saying "aw" as if in a permanent state of semi-arousal. Randall has the required pneumatic assets and she belts out her songs with some gusto. But at the moment her band is carrying the show and she needs to work a whole lot harder at making West more than a one-dimensional character with a not very convincing wig.
Ends August 21.
written by: ROB ADAMS
printed in: The Herald [U.K.] August 11 2005
- - from http://www.theherald.co.uk/ - -
- - Come Up & See Mae on August 17, 2005 - -
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